Waleria Sawicka, who is more than 100 years old, lives in East London. In Elżbieta Smoleńska’s podcast, she tells the story of how she and her mother were deported from Swieciany to Kazakhstan in April 1940…..

Another podcast by Krzysztof Renik. The author uses his archival footage from the early 1990s taken in Siberia, in the settlement of Naszyta, neighbouring the village of Vershyna. Both these settlements, some 100 kilometres from Irkutsk, are home to descendants of Poles who left Małopolska Region in Poland in 1910 and settled voluntarily in Siberia.

The brothers Aleksander and Antoni Radchenko, Poles from Vilnius, in a conversation with Krzysztof Renik talk about the family story of their ancestors’ deportation and their journey to Siberia in the footsteps of their exiled family members.

Peter Pogorzelski’s podcast on the repatriation of Poles from Kazakhstan.

Deported in 1940 – Krzysztof Renik’s podcast about Polish Sybiraks living in Australia